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Recently I sent an, (on-topic), email to a public mailing list
that exists for the discussion of network management. Shortly after
I received the following, (edited to protect the stupid).

We have enabled a Spam (Unsolicited e-mails) filtering software package in
an attempt to reduce unsolicited e-mails.
The following e-mail was blocked because our filter detected an improper
word or phrase. See the Rule section below for the word or phrase that
stopped the transmission of the message.
Rule = Spam;Bulk Email;Bulk Email Product/Service;Products/Services__3;Penis
Enlargement;Penis Enlargement Terms

My install of Spamassassin, (default configuration on Debian
unstable), gave this same mail a score of -4.9, (definitely NOT
spam), so I sifted through it manually. Out of 151 lines and 986
words, (minus headers of course), I could only find two words that
by any stretch of the imagination could contribute to the
rejection, the words "performance" and "response", (remember, this
is a mailing list pertaining to network management).

Not only does this win the prize for the most crack-headed bit
of content filtering that I've seen to date, but on top of that,
they take it once step further and email the product of their
stupidity to the person they *think* has sent the UCE. Considering
how prevalent it is for real spammers to forge the sender address,
the only people likely to even see it are either the victims of a
false positive, or the victim of a JoeJob. Dumb-asses.

A new ucarp package has been created to address #284891,
(parameter order of upscript/downscript breaks ucarp). I hope to
get an upload sponsored soon, but in the meantime they can be
snagged from my repository by anyone interested.

Brad Hall pushed out a new upstream release of asmon and I have
updated my package. For the most part this release just includes
patches already applied to 0.60 in Sarge. Until a sponsored upload
happens, 0.70-1 can be obtained from my repository.